Blake Boles
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817 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2019
last heard Dec 2022
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And so when people say, oh my gosh, if I don't force my kid to learn math right now, or my kid is
essentially in eighth grade and all these other kids are doing pre-algebra and my kid won't touch pre-algebra with a 10-foot pole.
This idea that the kid will never be able to get into college, that's something I've been pushing back against for a long time because, again, it's true.
Yes, there are unschoolers who don't know math when all these other kids know math.
But when this unschooler decides that she wants to go to college,
The same story happens over and over again.
They figure out very quickly what they need to do to achieve this longer-term goal.
For example, I want to go to college so I can study marine biology because marine biology is cool.
That's something that they've figured out in all of the freedom and self-direction that you've given them.
Then a kid has a serious, intrinsically motivated reason to get their act together and learn math.
And this happens super quickly.
The Sudbury Valley School, a famous democratic free school in Massachusetts, has a wonderful story about a multi-age group of kids at their school where no one is forced to learn anything, who said, we want to learn basic math.
And they asked one of the founding members of the school to teach them math.
And the founding member was like, I don't think you really want to learn math.
Like, somebody's putting you up to this, right?
And they said, no, we want to learn math.
We want you to teach us.
And he said, all right, I'm going to choose the most boring thing.
1898 math primer, you know, that I can find, and we're just going to do drill and kill, you know, it's going to be pure math.
And you got to do your homework, you got to show up on time.
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